MANILA, Philippines — The number of girls aged 15 and below who got pregnant in 2019 increased by 7 percent compared to the 2018 data, the Commission on Population and Development (PopCom) said.
According to PopCom, the latest civil-registry statistics collected from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said that there were 2,411 girls considered as very young adolescents — meaning aged 10 to 14 years old — who gave birth in 2019.
This is also the ninth straight year where the figure has risen since 2011, constantly making one out of every 10 pregnancies in the country’s database borne accounted for by teenagers.
While it did not divulge figures from the previous yeas…
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